FCI Coleman Low is a low-security federal correctional institution housing male offenders, located near the small community of Coleman/Sumterville in Sumter County, Florida, roughly 50 miles northwest of Orlando. It is one of four facilities that make up the larger Coleman Federal Correctional Complex, which was built in the mid-1990s as the Bureau of Prisons expanded its presence in central Florida during a period of rapid growth in the federal inmate population. Coleman Low shares its rural, wooded campus with its higher-security sister institutions, giving the complex a distinctive layout where inmates of different classification levels are housed on the same grounds but in separate units. Over the years the complex has drawn national attention a handful of times, including a widely reported case around 2000 in which an inmate was found to be running an outside financial scheme from inside the prison using visits and phone calls, which led to tightened monitoring of communications across the compound. For families, it helps to know Coleman Low is meant for lower-risk, generally well-behaved inmates nearing the end of longer sentences, and the surrounding area is fairly rural, so planning travel and lodging in advance for visits is worthwhile.